Every time I say this, "both sides" freak out but it doesn't make it any less true: Liberals and leftists who fixate endlessly on an exaggerated threat of "Nazis" are the mirror image of right-wingers who fixate endlessly on the exaggerated threat of "Radical Islamic Terror"
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And again, clearly radical Islamism is a serious threat in places like Syria, and the same can be said for Nazis in Ukraine. But what happens in the US, at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety, is that moralizing political actors inflate threats when it suits their agenda
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What always happens is that the threats are then used as justification for overzealous legislative and law enforcement action, which threatens civil liberties (and more recently gets invoked to censor the internet.) That's the pattern, and I don't care if noting it makes you mad
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As the cryptographer Bruce Schneier often observes: "The risk of dying in the US from terrorism is substantially less than the risk of drowning in your bathtub, the risk of a home appliance killing you, or the risk of dying in an accident caused by a deer"https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1130100249878499328 …
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Yet somehow, these relatively minor threats -- because they're salacious and provoke wide-ranging culture war fury -- always seem to attract dramatically greater attention than the threat posed by: the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, corrupt cops, Big Pharma
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so the multiple mass shootings in synagogues and mosques that have happened since then just don't factor into your analysis of this whatsoever?
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Are you aware of the multiple mass shootings and attacks carried out by "radical Islamic terrorists" in the past few years? No, unlike you presumably, I don't think those isolated attacks ought to be extrapolated into an exaggerated, all-consuming "threat"
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That would be true in a vacuum, but we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a world where the United States, the most powerful entity in history, has spent trillions of dollars and killed a million people in the name of combating "radical Islamic terror"
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Started following you after your fantastic Papadopoulos interview. It’s hard to reconcile that stellar work with some of the asinine, almost incoherent, takes you throw at the wall on Twitter.
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In middle school I knew a fat kid that sat at his computer and drank Mt Dew all the time. His house smelled like piss because they never bothered training or cleaning up after their pets. He thought he was smart. Anyway, you remind me of him.
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Power doesn’t exist, no such thing, only statistics
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this libertarian thing is really good and makes a lot of sense. can you redo this thread in video form, sitting behind the wheel of your car?
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I think the responses in this thread reify the point. Well done.
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Apologist
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Yes, you'll always have that "one".pic.twitter.com/aUPEugSgPc
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...and Charlottesville was a FF. You're an investigative journalist, right. Start looking. Bubbles are meant to be popped.
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Are you under the sober-minded impression that the extent of white nationalist violence was Charlottesville? Are you, a person whose job is to stay informed about modern events, completely unaware of the repeated white nationalist massacres taking place? Mindboggling.
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people have been telling him about these other massacres repeatedly. he’s deliberately minimizing it.
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